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Why, I wasn't planning to get any consoles in the future, because handhelds and PC pretty much covers most things these day.
But todays ND kind of change my mind, especially this game and The Wind Waker. After xenoblade, i don't think i can avoid this game. I just hope we won't see a big localisation gap as with xenoblade.

So Xenoblade and this are confirmed to be part of the Xenogears/Xenosaga universe? I heard the speculation, but never any confirmation.

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I don't know that much about Xenogears/saga but I have played Xenoblade and it's pretty, uh, standalone? As a setting, I mean.

All the games have pretty much the same development team, but they're definitely not all part of the same setting - mostly because each Xeno-title is a seperate IP owned by different companies. Xenogears belongs to Square, Xenosaga belongs to Namco, and Xenoblade belongs to Nintendo. There's a bunch of fanservicey mentions of old characters and stuff in the games, but nothing really beyond that as far as I am aware.

Two things to note about this video. First, you can see the robots are called 'Dolls' and they have a limited amount of fuel that is constantly draining. Second, there appears to be an online chat function built into the game, my personal guess would be the game now has a co-op function in addition to relying on the AI party members of the previous title.

They're certainly playing up the Xeno- aspects here with the robots and the big red X, though.

Think Xeno- brand is pretty much associated with Monolith Soft with the gaming crowd these days. At the moment it seems that anything with Xeno- in its title coming from monolith soft indicates that it is probably their current flagship project.
IIRC the other team have 3DS game in works, which is probably a new IP or a surprise sequel for a forgotten series.

Looks interesting gameplay-wise, but I need to know who's behind the script first. Hopefully it'll be Tetsuya Takahashi himself and without Yuichiro Takeda's interference this time, and hopefully he'll step up his game from Xenoblade's cookie cutter storyline and bring back the ambitious scope of his former works. Doubtful, though, given his most recent interviews.

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So Xenoblade and this are confirmed to be part of the Xenogears/Xenosaga universe? I heard the speculation, but never any confirmation.

Xenosaga was basically a reboot of the Xenogears universe. But while Xenogears covered Episode V of said universe's history (revealed in the ending of the game), Xenosaga covered Episode I and II (yes, not III, according to the original plan). So they're definitely spiritually connected and possess a lot of the same motifs, themes, plot points and even characters.

Xenoblade, however, had absolutely nothing to do with the other two. It was a complete departure from the style, tone, priorities, themes and artistic aspirations of Gears and Saga and should never be mentioned in the same breath as those two. Really, the Xeno prefix was just fanservice/a marketing ploy, as its real name is "Monado", as it was originally released in Japan.

Er, the game was not originally released as Monado in Japan, it was released over there with the title of Xenoblade as well. Monado was the original name for the game while it was still in production, and during the initial announcements, but it got changed to Xenoblade before it was released anywhere.

Er, the game was not originally released as Monado in Japan, it was released over there with the title of Xenoblade as well. Monado was the original name for the game while it was still in production, and during the initial announcements, but it got changed to Xenoblade before it was released anywhere.

Right, I was confusing the events due to the title change of "Xenoblade" (JPN release) to "Xenoblade Chronicles" (NTSC/PAL release). Still, it was called "Monado: Beginning of the World" until very late into its development, so the point still stands that it was never intended to be a real part of the Xenoverse.

So Xenoblade and this are confirmed to be part of the Xenogears/Xenosaga universe? I heard the speculation, but never any confirmation.

And.....I need to find a copy of Xenoblade. I've heard so many goood things about it but I can't find a copy anywhere.

Are you in North America or Europe? If you're in North America you should have pre-ordered as it was a GameStop exclusive and the remaining copies are very expensive. If you're in Europe there are still plenty of shops that have the game.

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Looks interesting gameplay-wise, but I need to know who's behind the script first. Hopefully it'll be Tetsuya Takahashi himself and without Yuichiro Takeda's interference this time, and hopefully he'll step up his game from Xenoblade's cookie cutter storyline and bring back the ambitious scope of his former works. Doubtful, though, given his most recent interviews.

Did we play the same game? Xenoblade's story is anything but cookie cutter and it was tasteful in contrast to Xenosaga. Nintendo did a good job of doing QA for it.